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== Attributes and Abilities ==
=== Powers ===
;Invulnerability: Steelheart is impervious to harm from all known sources, including bullets, edged weapons, blunt force, suffocation, radiation, electricity and fire.
;Super Strength: Inhumanly broad and tall, Steelheart is strong enough to crush bones and throw people with ease.
;Wind Manipulation: Control of the wind grants Steelheart the ability to fly and pick up objects using the air around him.
;Flight: Steelheart is capable of flight under his own power. This ability is referred to separately from his wind manipulation.
;Steel Transfersion: When angry, Steelheart spontaneously transforms non-living matter around him to solid steel, spreading out from him in a sphere. Steel and iron have the ability to "insulate" against the transfersion, but other metals are transformed to steel. As this ability is tied to his emotions, he sometimes uses it without intent. This power has a radius of about four miles.{{wob ref|6430}}
;Energy Beams: Steelheart can project energy beams from his hands that can vaporize people and melt steel with ease.
Before becoming an Epic, he was known by his given name, '''Paul Jackson'''. In high school, he was a track star and had a reputation for being a bully. After finishing high school, he worked as a security guard at a factory and was an active member of online conspiracy theory forums. {{book ref|Firefight|6}}
Steelheart came to Chicago shortly after the appearance of the [[Epic]]s. He annexed the city and much of the surrounding territory, declaring himself emperor and all those within his domain his subjects. He offered other Epics the choice of serving him or dying. One of his initial acts was The Great Transfersion, in which he transformed most of Newcago, including buildings, part of Lake Michigan, and several miles underground to solid steel. Initially, he claimed to be building an ideal city with a vast network of understreets, but he soon abandoned this pretense and ruled his subjects harshly and erratically. He enlisted three Epics, [[Nightwielder]], [[Conflux]] and [[Firefight]],
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